The snow fell heavier and heavier, and there were more and more corpses on the ground.

Cheng Wan grabbed a masked man's shoulder and stabbed him through.

The few masked men left around looked at the blood on Cheng Wan's body and face, and at Cheng Wan's mad murderous look, and couldn't help but feel timid.

They are human beings, and as human beings they will be afraid.

"She can't hold on for much longer, go!"

After shouting, the masked man took the lead and rushed forward.

Cheng Wan pulled the knife out of the body of the masked man in front of him, then kicked the masked man's body towards the other masked men who were coming to kill him, turned around to get rid of the masked man who was blocking his way, and rushed towards a horse in the distance.

"She's trying to escape! Stop her! Shoot! Shoot!"

"Master, bow your head!"

With Jin Jin around, Cheng Wan safely rushed to the horse and quickly jumped on it.

"drive!"

"Chase! Chase quickly! We can't let her get away!"

……

A quarter of an hour later, Cheng Wan stopped on his horse at the edge of a cliff.

Cheng Wan pulled the reins, turned the horse's head, and leaned his back against the cliff, still looking murderous.

"Marquis Zhaoping, you have nowhere to go! Why don't you surrender quickly?"

Cheng Wan didn't say anything, he just got off the horse and backed away carefully, staring at the masked men.

"Humph! In that case, we will grant your wish!"

"Master, jump!"

"Fire arrows!"

The moment before the arrow was shot, Cheng Wan turned around and jumped off the cliff.

The masked men immediately dismounted and hurried to the edge of the cliff to look down.

"He's definitely dead. I'm sure his body will be smashed into a pulp."

"Go around the cliff and take a look. If he's alive, I'll have to see him. If he's dead, I'll have to see his body!"

The masked men left.

Shortly after the masked men left, several men sneaked to the edge of the cliff.

"This...what should I do?!

When they approached us, they didn't say this would happen!"

The leading sturdy man had a heavy face. After thinking for a while, he said, "Our job is to follow this team from a distance. If the team is attacked and Marquis Zhaoping can't take care of the team, we will help gather the scattered servants of Marquis Zhaoping's mansion, reorganize the team, and escort the team back to the capital. Now Marquis Zhaoping..."

The leading burly man pursed his lips tightly and continued, "We just do what we should do. The rest has nothing to do with us and is really not something we can control."

Several men left the cliff and took the horse that Cheng Wan had ridden with them.

The snow was getting heavier again, and the shoe prints and horse hoof prints on the edge of the cliff were soon covered with layers of snow, until a certain moment, there was only a flat expanse of white on the edge of the cliff, as if no one had ever been there.

……

Ten days later, in the capital, in the imperial palace.

It was already dark and the wind was cold, but the Fengyi Palace where the Queen was staying was brightly lit and warm like spring.

"Your Majesty is busy with state affairs and has to worry about the war on the front lines. It's really hard. I have recently learned a new set of massage techniques. Why don't I give your Majesty a massage?"

The queen looked at the emperor, who was flipping through a book in an elegant manner, with tenderness in her eyes.

The emperor flipped a page of the book, his brows indifferent: "No need, Queen, go wash yourself."

"Yes."

The queen bowed her head. She had long been accustomed to the emperor's attitude. Besides, the emperor was in her palace at the moment, so she was in a very good mood.

As soon as the queen went to wash up, Changfu came in.

"Your Majesty, something happened!"

The emperor looked up at Chang Fu and found that Chang Fu's face was full of unconcealable panic.

The emperor frowned slightly: "What makes you so panicked?"

"Your Majesty, something happened to Marquis Zhaoping!

On his way back to Liangzhou, Marquis Zhaoping encountered robbers and was cornered, so he jumped off a cliff!

The hall fell into a suffocating silence, and the emperor maintained his previous posture for a long time without moving.

With a "ripping" sound, the emperor lowered his eyes and looked at the pages he had torn unconsciously. His voice was calm: "Have you found the body?"

"No."

The emperor's eyebrows moved slightly: "Then it is possible that he is still alive."

"At the bottom of the cliff, we found pieces of Zhaoping Hou's clothes and a shoe. The clothes and shoes were all covered in blood, and there were pieces of meat at the bottom of the cliff..."

Chang Fu couldn't continue speaking. He lowered his head and wiped his tears with his sleeves.

The emperor closed the book and sat up, his eyes dark and cold. "Marquis Zhaoping is smart and clever, I don't think he will die so easily. Order people to expand the search area around the bottom of the cliff and search every inch for me."

Chang Fu quickly responded.

The emperor stood up and just as he walked out of Fengyi Palace, he felt the biting cold coming towards him.

The emperor looked up at the dark night sky and felt suddenly depressed.

It’s so cold…

"Changfu, when did Marquis Zhaoping jump off the cliff? I remember it seemed to snow a few days ago."

Chang Fu held back the sourness in his nose and said in a hoarse voice: "I jumped off the cliff on the day of the first snow."

How could such a lively and beautiful girl end up like this?

"First Snow..."

The emperor blinked and walked into the cold wind.

Chang Fu hurried to follow.

After washing up, the queen came out with a smile on her face, but found that the emperor was gone.

"What about the emperor?"

"To answer your Majesty's question, the Emperor has left."

"Gone?" The Queen frowned, "Do you know why?"

"It seems to be because Marquis Zhaoping died."

"what?!"

The queen widened her eyes in dismay.

The palace maid quickly repeated what Chang Fu had said to the queen.

"Humph! What robbers? It's obvious that someone in the court wanted to murder her and forced her to jump off the cliff!"

"All of you please leave." Leng He, the Queen's trusted aunt, ordered everyone else to leave, and then looked at the Queen: "Your Majesty, be careful, there are ears behind the walls!"

The queen sneered indifferently: "I am the queen, I can say whatever I want, why should I hide from others? Besides, unless you are a fool, who would believe that Zhaoping Hou encountered robbers? Just wait and see, this matter is not over yet."

The fact was just as the queen said. After the news of Cheng Wan's death by jumping off a cliff spread, it caused an uproar in the officialdom of the capital.

The officials all knew clearly that Cheng Wan’s death must be related to one or more officials.

When Yan Mu and other Liangzhou officials heard the news, they were so shocked that they couldn't recover for a long time.

That was Cheng Wan, who escorted food and fodder to the front line and returned safely, and also stole the imperial seal and the late emperor's son along the way!

How could he be forced to jump off a cliff?

How could he die on the way back to Liangzhou?

But no matter how unwilling or afraid these people were to believe it, the fact happened.

"Your Majesty, there must be something fishy about the death of Marquis Zhaoping. I beg Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate this matter and find out who is behind it, so as to comfort Marquis Zhaoping's spirit in heaven!"

In the court, Yan Mu was the first to stand up.

"Your Majesty, please investigate this matter thoroughly to comfort the spirit of Marquis Zhaoping in heaven!"

Some officials followed Yan Mu and shouted in unison.

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